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Preliminary Measure Set

National Healthcare Quality Report, 2002

The National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) tracks disparities in both quality of and access to health care in the United States for both the general population and for AHRQ's congressionally designated priority populations. This is the text version of the NHDR 2008 slide presentation.

Congress has given the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) a mandate to report annually to the Nation about health care quality. An interagency workgroup developed a preliminary set of quality measures for the report (below), and AHRQ seeks comments on the measures.

Select for Background on the preliminary measures and the Update on the National Healthcare Quality Report.